If, as contended for by Larcher, still more ably by Wesseling, and since by Mr.Clinton, we agree that Croesus reigned jointly with his father Alyattes, the difficulty vanishes at once.
[225] Plutarch gives two accounts of the recovery of Salamis by Solon; one of them, which is also preferred by Aelian (var.c.

xix., lib.

vii.), I have adopted and described in my narrative of that expedition: the second I now give, but refer to Pisistratus, not Solon: in support of which opinion I am indebted to Mr.Clinton for the suggestion of two authorities.

Aeneas Tacticus, in his Treatise on Sieges, chap.iv., and Frontinus de Stratagem., lib.iv., cap.
vii .-- Justin also favours the claim of Pisistratus to this stratagem, lib.xi., c.

viii.
[226] The most sanguine hope indeed that Cicero seems to have formed with respect to the conduct of Cesar, was that he might deserve the title of the Pisistratus of Rome.
[227] If we may, in this anecdote, accord to Plutarch (de Vit.